Re: Native Anaconda Support for Installs via USB Flash Stick

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wednesday, April 01 2009, Jason Maestri said:
>   The company I work for has a need to be able to install Fedora onto
> several different hardware configurations via a USB thumb drive.  As far as
> I can currently tell, the only way to install via a thumb drive is to treat
> it like a hard drive and tell Anaconda which device it is.  We would like to
> see something like the "cdrom" install method, where we would just say
> "flash" in the kickstart and kernel options, and then Anaconda would take
> care of the rest.

Instead of flash (or whatnot), it's probably more worthwhile to flesh
out and ensure that everywhere that we have hard drive support can also
take a label or uuid.  Then it should be pretty straight-forward to
image your sticks with a consistent label and use that to refer to your
install source

Jeremy